My country has picked up a few "Americanisms" over the years
beginning with "cowboy' movies and small boys getting cowboy outfits complete with toy guns for Christmas or birthday gifts.
Foods soon followed with movie theatres selling giant buckets of salted buttered hot popcorn along with giant buckets of "soda" aka soft drinks.
Speech has also become somewhat Americanised. There are other examples, but just yesterday I saw the very worst kind of copying.
Right here in my own largely peaceful, accepting country, A Hannukah Festival on Bondi Beach in Sydney, New South Wales, was ruined by hateful thugs with guns randomly shooting into the crowd, injuring and killing bfore they were apprehended.
I believe one of the offenders also died.
These peaceful people celebrating the way they have done for years, were attacked because they and their festival were/are Jewish.
WHY????
What the heck is so wrong with being Jewish that others feel the need to wipe them from the Earth?
I don't get it. I JUST DON'T GET IT.
It's senseless. No other religion is attacked as badly as this one.
Senseless indeed. Very sad. Here in Montreal and probably the rest of Quebec and even the rest of Canada 🇨🇦 have increased police presence around Synagogues to ensure the safety of anyone celebrating Hanukkah.
ReplyDeleteI pray 🙏 that this hatred for Jewish people and any hatred towards anyone, Jewish or otherwise, will stop.
Linda's Relaxing Lair; thank you. I suspect from now on they will celebrate indoors with safety in mind.
DeleteMy husband Joe lived in Bondi, until we married and he left Sydney for ever. But Bondi beach was the centre of his Sydney Soul, surfing each morning before 5 years high school and before university. He was in tears when he saw the Bondi Massacre yesterday, and is meeting with his old Sydney friends tonight to honour the people who were killed and wounded, and to share memories of their teen years there.
ReplyDeleteHels; thank you. I have been to Bondi only once, many years ago, just a quick visit to see what all the fuss was about, it looked much the same as any other beach to me. How can such atrocious things happen in such beautiful places? More importantly, Why? We know they hate, but is that any reason to kill?
DeleteSo sad, R. I also ask why?
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; it's the biggest question in the world isn't it?
DeleteI want to thank you so much River. I was waiting today for someone in Blogland to address this terrible thing that happened. People ignore it and are busy with their petty daily lives, it's still not a big deal when Jews are murdered. And thank you again.
ReplyDeleteYael; it SHOULD a be a big deal when Jews are murdered, just like when any other people are murdered. But look at the US, children shot in schools and their government sends "thoughts and prayers" No wonder the thugs think they can get away with it. I hope our Australian government comes down harder on the gunmen, I believe one has now died.
DeleteThe horror of the second worst massacre in my lifetime is certainly on every Australian's minds. Well may we ask why, because there is no justification for shooting innocent people. I think many of us are closer to understanding Jewish fear in Australia, and it is to our national shame that this event occurred.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; it's a horror that will never leave our minds, just like that earlier one in Tasmania. i have known and worked with Jewish people in the factories and they are lovely people, just like the rest of us, with families, mortgages etc. I've had dinner with them and apart from a few food rules, they are no different to any of us.
DeleteWe cannot understand why there is such hatred towards Jews. Antisemitism is rising again everywhere. It is. wrong that people should feel they cannot celebrate their religious holidays in the way they want to.
ReplyDeletejabblog; I have read about the antisemitism rising and hoped it would not happen here, but there has been rumbles and mobs and rallies, but I hoped that would be the extent of things. I am horrified at this shooting episode. This is NOT what MY multicultural country is about.
DeleteReligion should never be a reason to kill other people. I agree 100 % until the last sentence. In so many countries Christians are attacked, killed and so on at work and in churches. Only it never reaches the headlines. Look at this map: https://www.opendoors.org/en-US/persecution/countries/
ReplyDeleteCharlotte; I agree religion should never be any reason to kill others. I also know that Christians do get attacked for their beliefs, I remember the Catholic/Protestant wars of Ireland, but Jewish people have been maligned for centuries upon centuries, and it isn't right.
DeleteO mundo não pode continuar na intolerância de extremismos desumanos.
ReplyDeleteAbraço de amizade.
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Juvenal Nunes; I agree, intolerance must be stopped. Under the skin, under the colour, without religion, we are ALL the same. We all have the same rights to live in peace TOGETHER. So why can't that happen?
DeleteThat has always been my question as well. "WHY?" I'm very saddened by this.
ReplyDeleteDVArtist; WHY? is the biggest question of all time. I am still getting teary-eyed over this.
DeleteAll religions are a plague upon the earth leading to extremism and my god is the right god nonsense. Or even worse god ordered me to do this, that or the other.
ReplyDeleteAll slaughtering of innocents is evil and there is far too much of it in the world. And always has been.
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Wisewebwoman; "god ordered me to do this" is an excuse that should never be allowed. Ans no one has the right to say "my God is the right God, my God is better than your God" or anything similar. I also believe that retaliation is never the answer, that just kicks off more and more of the same.
DeleteCrazy world. The entire world has their share of crappy people that also make me ask, why?
ReplyDeleteThe Happy Whisk; crazy world indeed. But not the fun kind of crazy, this was more the completely nuts kind of crazy.
DeleteThat was NOT a good thing to emulate!
ReplyDeleteKathy G; for sure and I have heard some Islamic gang might have been behind it. Feeding upon the war in Israel I think, inciting people to violence.
DeleteI don't get it either.
ReplyDeleteDora; I don't think any of us "get it".
DeleteIt makes me sad for our world.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; you and me both. 😢
DeleteIt even was in the German evening TV-news and I agree. Jewish people work hard, don´t bother others with their religion unlike some others!!! Like in Berlin a certain group screamed they want the caliphate in Germany. I could go on and on what they want - and in some points even get! - Jewish people do not. And yet, whyever, everywhere it seems they are "hated". I really am proud my Dad´s family hid some from the Na#is!
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